To pass Michigan certification on the Accu-vote-TS, the
following must be done.
Michigan allows write-in candidates. They also require
their poll workers to count and resolve all issues at the precinct before the
results can be sent in to central headquarters. This also means counting
of all write-ins. In a race for more than one, our current system does
not flag or keep a voter from voting a write-in name more than once. Bob
U. said that a touchscreen system that is certified in Michigan is tying the
write-ins with each ballot, so when printing out results, they the poll
workers can identify if a voter voted the same name more than once in a
write-in position in that race. So in the reporting feature, when
printing results on the Accu-vote-TS, we need to attach a ballot number to the
write-in names. If you have any questions on this please call me or Bob
U..
Okay. If I
understand correctly, you would like a ballot id in addition to the race id
attached to the write-ins on the result tape. Correct? Are there any other
modifications required in the behavior of the software? What exactly do
the poll workers do with the write-in totals once they are
counted?
Thanks for
submitting this RCR Don. By a complete coincidence I am designing the GEMS
database for write-ins today, and I had not thought about the voting for
the same write-in candidate twice issue. I will put the ballot id to
the write-in table on GEMS as well, for jurisdictions that don't count the
write-ins at the polls.
Ken
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